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We offer a busy calendar of events, which are variously available to the public, our graduates, future and current students, and staff.

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Research Students Symposium
Skerman Lecture
School research seminars
Research theme seminars

  

2020 SCMB Research Students Symposium

26 November 2020 9:00am
 
in SCMB Research Students Symposium
The 16th annual symposium organised by and for SCMB's research (HDR, PGCW project and Honours) students and open to other UQ research students and staff to attend as audience members.

Novel technologies for discovery, design and development of new and effective vaccines

26 November 2019 4:30pm
 
in Skerman Lecture
Presenter: Professor Mariagrazia Pizza, Senior Scientific Director for Bacterial Vaccines at GSK Vaccines
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The beauty of gold: from small molecules to supramolecular complexes for biomedical applications and activity in aqueous environment

14 November 2019 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
in T. G. H. Jones Memorial Lecture
Presenter: Professor Angela Casini, Chair of Medicinal and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
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Discovery and development of antiviral nucleosides: The story of Remdesivir (GS-5734), a broad spectrum antiviral agent for the treatment of Ebola

30 September 2019 1:00pm–3:00pm
 
in Bertram Dillon Steele Lecture
Presenter: Dr Richard Mackman, Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry, Gilead Sciences

Biobased Building Blocks for the chemical industry - Opportunities and Challenges for (bio)chemical reaction routes

28 June 2019 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
in Biochemistry Alumni Lecture
Presenter: Professor Volker Sieber, Technical University of Munich

2018 SCMB Research Students Symposium

29 November 2018 4:30pm
 
in SCMB Research Students Symposium

Genetics, Genomics and Biochemistry of Innate Immunity

12 September 2018 3:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Biochemistry Alumni Lecture
Presenter: Professor David Hume, Mater Research Institute/University of Queensland

Alumni reunion 2018

1 August 2018 1:00pm–24 September 2018 3:30pm
 
in Chemistry alumni reunion
Presenter: Professor Edward Holmes, University of Sydney

Adventures in the Virosphere

1 August 2018 1:00pm–3:30pm
 
in Skerman Lecture
Presenter: Professor Edward Holmes, University of Sydney

The Chemical Sciences and a Sustainable Future

16 July 2018 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
in T. G. H. Jones Memorial Lecture
Presenter: Professor Stephen Matlin, Institute of Global Health Innovation/Imperial College, London

Cryo-electron Microscopy of Helical Protein and Nucleoprotein Polymers: Insights into Evolutionary Divergence.

15 November 2017 5:30pm–8:30pm
 
in Biochemistry Alumni Lecture
Presenter: Professor Edward Egelman, University of Virginia

The Role of Glycan Interactions in Cell and Host Tropism of Bacterial Pathogens

2 November 2017 3:00pm–5:00pm
 
in Skerman Lecture
Presenter: Professor Michael Jennings, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University

Nature microbiology writing workshop

20 October 2017 4:30pm
 
in Writing Workshop
Presenter: Dr Michael Chao Associate Editor, Nature Microbiology publication

Sensing Our World: From glucose sensors to counting single molecules and cells

18 September 2017 1:00pm–2:00pm
 
in Bertram Dillon Steele Lecture
Presenter: Professor Justin Gooding, University of New South Wales

The Discovery of Temsavir and its Prodrug Fostemsavir

31 July 2017 4:00pm–6:00pm
 
in T. G. H. Jones Memorial Lecture

Walking in the Woods with Quantum Chemistry - New Concepts in the World of Natural Products Biosynthesis

5 December 2016 4:00pm
 
in Bertram Dillon Steele Lecture
Presenter: Professor Dean Tantillo, The University of California (Davis), USA

12 Annual SCMB research students symposium

24 November 2016 8:45pm
 
in SCMB Research Students Symposium

Reconstructing ancient proteins: mechanisms for the evolution of protein structure and function

5 October 2016 4:30pm
 
in Biochemistry Alumni Lecture
Presenter: Professor Joe Thornton, University of Chicago

Redefining Bacterial Virulence in terms of Evolution, Metabolism, Immune

19 July 2016 11:30am–12:30pm
 
in Skerman Lecture
Presenter: Professor Harry Mobley, Frederick G. Novy Distinguished University Professor and Chair, University of Michigan

Simple/Low-cost Bioanalysis for the Developing World and Point of Care

30 June 2016 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in T. G. H. Jones Memorial Lecture
Presenter: Prof George Whitesides, Harvard University

Capture and characterisation of reactive intermediates in P450 catalysis: Insights into biological C-H bond activation

20 July 2015 5:45pm
 
in Bertram Dillon Steele Lecture
Presenter: Professor Mike Green, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA

Using Ancient DNA to time travel through megafaunal extinctions, climate change and human microbiomes

20 July 2015 5:15pm
 
in Skerman Lecture
Presenter: Professor Alan Cooper, from the University of Adelaide

MAIT cells: Friend or Foe in recognising microbial vitamin meabolites presented in the MHC-I-related molecule MR1

28 May 2015 12:15pm
 
in Biochemistry Alumni Lecture
Presenter: Professor James McCluskey, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Melbourne

Chemistry alumni reunion 2015

1 April 2015 4:45pm
 
in Chemistry alumni reunion

The Magic of Molecular Machines

18 December 2014 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
in T. G. H. Jones Memorial Lecture
Presenter: Prof David Leigh, University of Manchester

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